Hey, everybody. It's Tim Mone from The Bullwork. I'm so excited to bring our guest for today to you here in a minute.

Wright Thompson is the guy I've been reading about for a long time. And one of my favorite books the past couple of years is his book, The Barn, about basically the 30-ish square miles around the barn where Emmett Till was murdered.

It's an area that he grew up in and still lives in Mississippi. And I thought that would be just a really interesting conversation

for the Martin Luther King holiday weekend. And also, as you'll see, there's just a ton of echoes

and lessons from that period that I think are

resonating right now. He also just tells a wonderful story about his mother that I think is

going to give a lot of you some laughter and comfort and steal you to keep getting in those

Facebook comments section wars.

So stick around for all of that.

Right is great.

I wanted to do a quick news thing at the top because there's just so much happening.

And so here's like a little brief news potpourri and Tim's hot takes.

And then we'll get you to write.

The first thing is Maria Carina Machado went to the White House yesterday

to give Donald Trump the medal, her Nobel Peace Prize medal.

Got to say, it feels like this is a little too, little too late for Maria Machado.

I mean, Donald Trump likes trophies, but things are already moving down the tracks

as far as him garnishing, confiscating, stealing the oil from Venezuela and putting it in a bank

account in Qatar and letting the communist Chevista still run the country. So Donald Trump doesn't

really seem to care a lot about, you know, freedom and the other things that Machado was talking about. I think maybe she was hoping that he would care about the trophy so much. But I think Donald Trump's kind of the person that says, hey, great, thank you. I appreciate the trophy. I'm going to keep it. I'm going to put it in my trophy room and then not do anything for you. That'd, that'd be kind of my assessment of Donald Trump's

character. I do have to mention that she gave him the medal in this kind of framed, it sort of

looked like somebody ran to Michaels, like an hour before the event and had the metal framed

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